Animal stories
By: retold from the originals by Diane Namm ; illustrated by Eric Freeberg.
Contributors: Freeberg, Eric, ill.
Series: Classic starts
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781402766466
Subjects: Children's stories, American; Short stories; Animals -- Fiction; Animals -- Folklore; Fairy tales
Genres: Fiction.; Folklore.
Description: An abridged retelling of a dozen stories about animals from well-known authors.
Table of contents: title: "Just so" stories / by Rudyard Kipling. How the elephant got his trunk ; How the camel got his hump ; How the rhinoceros got his skin ; How the leopard got his spots ; How the whale got his throat ; The beginning of the armadillos; title: Stories by Hans Christian Anderson. The leap-frog ; The wild swans; title: Dog stories. A dog's tale / by Mark Twain ; Brown wolf / by Jack London; title: Stories from "Queer Little Folks" / by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The squirrels that live in a house ; Mother Magpie's mischief.